Difference between revisions of "Wallrunning"

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Wallrunning can occur when a player runs along a straight wall (either normally or by straferunning) while in contact with it. The player will be accelerated to a speed that is greater than normally attainable.

Wallrunning is triggered when:

• The player is running north along a one-sided north-south wall, south along a two-sided north-south wall, or east along a one-sided east-west wall; and
• The player is aligned either precisely parallel to, 38.7 degrees away from, or 45 degrees away from the wall.

After a brief moment, the player will begin moving at a very high speed, ceasing only when the player stops running, encounters a corner, or changes direction (e.g. by being hit by a monster).

An agile player can exploit this bug as a speedrunning or deathmatch tactic, taking advantage of north-south and east-west walls to dodge projectile attacks or move quickly between distant areas of a map. Its use in deathmatch play is somewhat limited, however, because it requires that:

• The level contain a straight north-south or east-west wall in the appropriate place(s);
• The player determine which way is north, possibly during a fast-moving firefight;
• The player rapidly orient himself at the desired angle to the wall and;
• The player wait for the acceleration to begin.

On rare occasions, wallrunning also works on sidedefs of other orientations (for instance, west-north-westward along linedefs 106, 119, and 39 of DMPRTL2.WAD from Maximum Doom). In addition, because sprite “footprints” on a map are square rather than round, this same acceleration can occur along one edge of a long row of aligned obstacles, where it is referred to as “thingrunning”.

Demo files

• The wallrunning bug (file info) on MAP13: Downtown
• The wallrunning bug (file info) on E3M6: Mt. Erebus

External links

• Wallrunning as a deathmatch tactic, at doom2.net
• A discussion of thingrunning (with demos) on the Compet-N web site